Peak tv card, how get it to work?
 

Have NO idea whatever about tv so anything likely to be helpful.

Debian Etch AMD64.

PEAK 138508AGPK
DVB-T Digital TV Hybrid PCI Card:
http://www.peakhardware.com/products...l.asp?paid=199

Just want to get the analog tv working.

Tried tvtime-scanner, but it said the number of the thing was wrong (default 0), get impression from dmesg that 0 is correct. tvtime just gives a blank window although there is a little interference intermittently with wrong tv system selected. Should be pal-I, I think.

Apparently relevant stuff from dmesg:
What's the simplest way to get a picture or to check if card is working? TIA.

You have to specify the card number for the saa7134 module. If none of the numbers refers to your card, go through one by one until it works. Use tvtime with either Composite or S-Video while testing each card number. Of course you have to set the type of signal it is. After that you will have to set the tuner and use a dvb utility to tune it. It is a tedious setup, but it should work eventually.

Thanks, that gives me a basis for doing something.

Just a bit of clarification, sorry to be thick, what is the set 'none of the numbers'; and could you suggest a sequence of numbers to bo through one by one? Thanks again.

Some cards don't have identification EEPROMS, so you need to manually tell the driver what the card is or what it is a clone of. Yours appears to have one, so it may not be an issue. If you didn't have one, the dmesg output would show a list of possible cards and you would have to pass a card=## parameter when you load the driver. Your card seems to be identified by the driver, so you probably don't need a card=## parameter, but you'll probably need to pass a tuner=## parameter though.


Here is a very useful wiki page on the cards:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_saa7134

Elliott gave you the best link out there, that should solve your problem if you follow it.

You could also try the following, which is in the above link, your tv card could be using the Tiger reference design from Phillips. Run the following command:

modprobe saa7134 card=81 tuner=54

dmesg should now tell you the card is a Tiger...etc and not "UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]"

Good luck with this, these cards are sometimes no fun at all.

I am tempted to calls you girls geniuses, if that's the plural. Have got a picture. Suspect not out of the woods yet but do have a picture and that's got to be the big thing, surely.

# rmmod saa7134
# modprobe saa7134 card=88 tuner=54

Was the essence of it.

However will get back and post something much more detailed since it seems mine is the only Peak card on the planet.

I am tempted to calls you girls geniuses, if that's the plural. Have got a picture. Suspect not out of the woods yet but do have a picture and that's got to be the big thing, surely.

# rmmod saa7134
# modprobe saa7134 card=88 tuner=54

Was the essence of it.

However will get back and post something much more detailed since it seems mine is the only Peak card on the planet.

That should probably have been card=81 like Aegis8 said.

To give a bit more detail: First did modprobe saa7134 card=81 tuner=54 like Aegis8 paranormally decerned - how you do that? But did not work, I'd presumably got it wrong. So assumed, wrongly, card=0 was correct and used the shell script from http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_saa7134 to put in a series of tuner numbers. They all gave a blue flash and then black on the tvtime screen, except tuner=54 which also had an anomalous dmesg. So assumed that must be the tuner number.

Found that most card numbers, unlike card=0, gave a blue screen 'no signal' with tvtime, plumped for 81.

As a debian system used modprobe to insert saa7134 card=81 tuner=54. Then, as it happened used Russian frequency map (live in UK, get signal down cable, terestrial stations; listed building.) Autoscanned.

Got sound with: putting in module saa7134-alsa and using sox, I'll put in the sox command later

Glad you are getting somewhere with your TV card. The sox script to get the sound working on that wiki site works like a charm.

I had a similar battle to get a Gigabyte tv card working, and the Phillips SAA7134 uses the Tiger reference card for it's settings in Linux. Your dmesg told me that your card will most likely use the same card and tuner number. So nothing paranormal about it :)